Riddles To Reveal If You’d Make a Good Detective

detectives like Sherlock Holmes give us a lot to love they're great at solving the unsolvable and putting the bad guys where they belong becoming a detective in real life however doesn't require a deerstalker a magnifying glass a trusty sidekick or a distaste for human company a good detective is empathetic logical charismatic creative and persistent think you have what it takes to be the next Sherlock Holmes take a shot at this set of riddles and pick to test your sleuthing skills the baggy suit there was a shooting on redford Street last night you and your colleagues suspect Jeremy Thompson of the crime it went like this a man had been walking down the sidewalk when a stranger appeared and shot him in the stomach eyewitnesses testified that the suspect had blue eyes sandy brown hair and a baggy Armani suit like the one Jeremy Thompson had been wearing you and your partner sit down with Jeremy and ask him to tell his side of the story well Jeremy started I was just hanging out by the park when I saw a guy walking down the path suddenly another man came up from behind and shot him I ran home as fast as I could you know right away that he's lying how the victim could not have been shot in the stomach by a man running up behind him did your sleuths intuition fail you don't worry there's plenty more where that came from oil ring smugglers one of your colleagues went missing a few days before bringing the hammer down an oil smuggling ring while inspecting his last known location you find a note seven one zero five seven seven three five three four five five oh eight five one seven seven one eight you have three suspects in custody bill Alex and Eli can you break the detectives code and uncover the criminals name you've got ten seconds if you pointed the finger at bill you're right when read upside down the numbers read bill is boss he sells oil let's try the next one the suspicious woman somebody knocked on the door of Nancy's hotel room she opened it to reveal an unknown man looking surprised he spoke I apologize I thought this was my room tipping his hat he turned away and headed to the elevator the woman was immediately suspicious and doubt hotel security you pick up the phone and you figure out what made her so nervous [Music] nobody would knock at the door of their own home the scenario described above is actually a pretty common way for criminals to break into hotel rooms if nobody answers they bash their way inside and make off with your valuables the hills are alive with the sound of death mr. and mrs. Hall visited the mountains on their honeymoon three days later mr. Hall returned home alone he told police that his wife had fallen to her death during a hike less than 24 hours later you arrest him for his wife's murder soon after mr. Hall confess curious he asked how he figured it out you reply I called your travel agent and asked for some information what did you ask and what did the travel agent say [Music] time's up you asked how many tickets home mr. Hall bought though he bought two to get there he'd only bought one for the trip back he never planned on his wife getting home a tale of three brothers a millionaire was found shot in the forehead in her own home you spoke to the millionaire son's Leon Lewis and Liam all three of them were there when their mother was murdered Leon told you that his mother had spent the evening at an official reception with him and Lewis all three of them entered the living room his mother entered first followed by Lewis and then Leon himself his mother ready for a bubble bath made her way up the stairs that's when Liam entered the living room and shot their mother Lewis confirmed his story Liam meanwhile said that he'd been out with friends all night by the time he'd come home his mother was already dead you will immediately know who killed the millionaire how pause the video if you need more time the answer is simple Leon and Lewis lied and are therefore the murderers if Liam had shot his mother from the living room the bullet would have hit her in the back of the neck only someone shooting from the front could have hit her in the forehead the courtroom Fiasco a man is on trial for killing his wife though her body has not been found there exists ample circumstantial evidence connecting the husband to the crime in his final statement the man's lawyer declares that the wife hasn't been killed and will enter the courtroom in just a moment everyone turns to look at the door the defendants lawyer waits a few moments before saying your actions prove that you're not 100% sure that my client killed his wife if you were you wouldn't believe me the jury immediately returns with a guilty verdict what made them so sure the defendants guilt the accused man never looked at the door he was positive his wife wouldn't enter because he'd murdered her suicide or murder a man who is said to have jumped out of an apartment window and committed suicide you are sent to investigate you start by going to a room on the first floor that faces the dead man you opened the window and toss a penny out you repeat these actions until you've reached the top floor moments later you return to your team and declare the man murdered what tipped you off you've got 15 seconds when somebody jumps out a window they don't tend to close it behind them on pain of death one cold winter day David went to visit his friend Aidan though he knocked and rang the doorbell his friend never came to the door the house was completely silent any thought that his friend wasn't home was quickly stopped by the side of a light through frozen window walking up to the window David breathe on the frost covered glass once it cleared he could see Aidan lying in a pool of blood he called the police David was quickly arrested and declared the main suspect why David didn't think his story through unless he was a dragon he wouldn't be able to unfreeze the window by breathing on it from the outside as it is usually frozen on the inside murder in the schoolyard a history teacher was found murdered on the first day of the school year your careful detective work uncovered four suspects the custodian the biology teacher the counselor and the principal there's one problem all of them have alibis the custodian was cleaning the bathroom the biology teacher was grading midterms the counselor was talking with a student the principal was relaxing in her office alibi or no alibi you find the suspect immediately who killed the history teacher how do you know the biology teacher is the murderer according to him he was holding a midterm that's pretty hard to do on the first day of the year the hermit's murder there was once a lonely old man he led a quiet life and rarely left his home one Friday the mailman walked by and called out for the man he was answered by silence concerned for the man's safety the mailman looked inside the window and to his horror spotted the old man in a pool of blood he called the police when you arrived you found tuesday's newspaper two bottles of warm milk and one bottle of cold milk you arrested the killer the next day who's the killer and how did you figure it out so quickly the lack of a Wednesday or Thursday newspaper tells you it was the mailman he skipped those days because he knew the old man was dead chemistry clues a famous chemist was found murdered in his lab there was no evidence but a sheet of paper with the name of a few chemicals on it potassium chlorine and argan on the day of his death the chemist had been visited by four people lauren herbert clark and lori you're able to arrest the murderer immediately who killed the chemist and how do you know the chemical abbreviations for the substances are K CL and AR rearranging them gives you the suspects name the aristocrats death Herbert Longfellow was murdered last Sunday night there are five possible suspects his wife the chef the maid the gardener and the butler every one of them has an alibi the wife was reading a book by the fireplace the cook was making breakfast the butler was helping workers in the living room the maid was washing dishes the gardener was watering plants in the greenhouse right after hearing their testimonies you're able to arrest the murderer who was it the cook did it there's thinking ahead and then there's cooking breakfast on Sunday night the clean getaway you're on the hunt for an escaped criminal you've tracked him and his getaway car down to one of three houses but you can't make a move until you know his exact location if you guess wrong he'll bolt can you figure out where the fugitives hiding the murderers in house B he parked facing the street to ensure a quick getaway the hands of a killer Susan and Oliver lived with four their friends Oliver came home one day to find Susan dead on the sofa he called the police your preliminary investigation concluded that Susan had only been killed a short time ago you interrogated the couple's four friends Mary had been cooking in the kitchen Joshua was binging oranges the new black in his bedroom Cal said that he'd spent the last three hours in the swimming pool Lucy had been painting in her room one look tells you who the liar and murderer was which friend was it how do you know the murderer was obviously Cal anyone who'd spent the last three hours in the swimming pool would look like a raisin so how'd you do if you Ace this test and got 14 out of 14 maybe it's a sign that you're ready for the big leagues let me know which detective riddles left you stumped or which felt like child's play in the comments below and as always thanks for watching elementary my dear viewers

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Length: 13min 57sec (837 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 26 2018